Zebra Keyboard

Piano is like drudgery. - Warren Zevon

Up there in his ivory shower - Archie Bunker

I'm Liberace without a piano. - Paul Lynde

A zebra does not change its spots. - Al Gore

The piano has been drinking, not me. - Tom Waits

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

The piano ain't got no wrong notes. - Thelonious Monk

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams

Dancing with her was like moving a piano. - Ring Lardner

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. - Ludwig Borne

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano. - Vanessa Carlton

If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano. - Jerry Lee Lewis

It's hard to get ivory in Africa, but in Alabama the Tuscaloosa. - Groucho Marx

Having a baby is like trying to push a grand piano through a transom. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it. - Tom Lehrer

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. - Joan Didion

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Morticia Addams

There are eighty-eight keys on a piano and within that, an entire universe. - James Rhodes

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano. - Frederic Chopin

There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all. - Kenneth Tynan

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams

My father had a piano that was a nickelodeon - put a nickel, and the roller would play. - Frank Sinatra

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. - Isabel Allende

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano. - Bob Hope

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Irish Murdoch

I dreamt of you last night, as if I was playing the piano and you were turning the pages for me. - Vladimir Nabokov

Give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere. - Keith Richards

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. - Ani DiFranco

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. - Simone Weil

The tiger, he come up with the tigeress. The lion, he come up with the lionette. The zebra, he come up with the zeberelle. - Archie Bunker

You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes. - Robert Schumann

Piano playing is more difficult than statesmanship. It is harder to awake emotions in ivory keys than it is in human beings. - Ignace Jan Paderewski

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. - Oscar Wilde

The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument. - Eddie Van Halen

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die. - W H Auden

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins